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Title |
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8. To Thine Own Self be True: Alcoholics Anonymous, Recovery and Care of the Self - Spirituality and Wellbeing |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Lymarie Rodriguez; University of Wales Trinity St David; |
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Religious Studies |
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spiritual experience; wellbeing; health; spirituality and health; Alcoholics Anonymous; Foucault; Antonovsky; spiritual practices and recovery from substance abuse |
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Spirituality; Health |
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Description |
Abstract |
In this paper, a discussion is built upon findings from a qualitative study that investigated how young men worked through the process of recovery from substance use disorder whilst participating in 12-step fellowships in the UK (e.g. Alcoholics Anonymous). Alcoholic Anonymous’ spiritual discourse on recovery gives prominence to the development of a set of spiritual practices that trains participants in their capacities of self-care and self-regulation (i.e. writing, praying). Drawing on Foucault (2005), spiritual exercises were in antiquity a form of pedagogy, designed to teach people of a philosophical life that had both a moral and existential value. Spiritual practices were ways in which to enact self-transformation - an exercise of self upon the self by which one attempts to develop and transform, in order to attain a certain mode of being. The participants’ narratives presented authenticity and care of the self as a salient aspect of their recovery. Care and authenticity had become, in Antonovsky's (1987) words, ‘a generalized way of seeing the world’. |
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Publisher |
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Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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15-Mar-2020 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/35875 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.35875 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Spirituality and Wellbeing |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
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Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |